Young riding in top form
Paddy Young took his first National Steeplechase Association title as champion jockey last year, and he has jumped out to a brilliant start in the young 2010 season. He had two winners on the opening card at Aiken, S.C., on March 20, including a Budweiser Imperial Cup victory aboard Silverton Hill’s Torlundy, who is trained by his wife, Leslie.
At the gala Carolina Cup Races a week later, he gave Randleston Farm’s Spy in the Sky a confident, winning ride in the $75,000 Carolina First Carolina Cup, the first graded race on the National Steeplechase Association’s 2010 schedule. The 34-year-old Ireland native took the 2009 jockey title with 19 wins from 99 mounts.
